Name: Amy Neumeister, MD
Medical school attended: UNMC, 2000
Location of your residency/fellowship training:
- UNMC Internal Medicine, 2003
- UNMC Diabetes Endocrinology Metabolism (DEM), 2005
What residency program at UNMC are you serving as program director for?
DEM
Number of trainees?
Six, but over the next two years, it will grow to eight.
How long have you been the program director?
One year. I started in July 2022.
What made you chose to become the program director?
I watched the fellowship grow and change for about 20 years.
What challenges do you foresee in graduate medical education in the future?
I am only a year into this, so it is hard to say. The VA can change its expectations with little notice. At some point in the future, I predict that residents will no longer be allowed to take home calls, and it will be a challenge to cover all the inpatient calls and still protect the wellness of my fellows and partners.
What are the strengths of your training program?
- We provide great breadth and depth of endocrine clinical exposure to our fellows.
- My division all gets along. We consider our fellows like family.
List some accomplishments that you are proud of:
- I figured out how to change PerfectServe so that non-urgent overnight messages are not delivered until morning. This has been quite popular.
- My husband and I will celebrate our 20th wedding anniversary this fall.
Tell us five things about you that others may not know:
- I am 1,164 days into my streak of Spanish lessons on Duo Lingo, which started as a COVID project.
- I watch “Jeopardy” every day.
- My undergraduate degree is a BA in music.
- My favorite exercise is OrangeTheory Fitness. Join me! First class is free, class is only an hour, and there is a small corporate discount for UNMC/Nebraska Medicine employees.
- My intern year, I played bass guitar in a band with Lee Thurber (ophthalmology intern), Rod Miles (MD/PhD student), and Jack Lionberger (MD/PhD student). We played classic rock and 80s dance music. My favorite gig was when we played for the Internal Medicine banquet in 2001. Our band name was Viral Load.